[al-Qurʼān]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1600
Place of publication: India?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan. Selections
Description: Incomplete copy of the Qurʼān, from al-Kawthar (108) to the end (114) is missing. The first two folios are fragmentary with clean marginal repairs; much of the marginal decoration is lost.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: 13 long lines.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Fragmentary polychrome (green, blue, red, black, pink) and gold illuminated dual-page opening (f. 1v-2r). Fragmentary gold vegetal marginal fill (f. 2v-3r); four complete floral marginal fill (f. 58v-59r, 78v-79r, 111v-112r, 275v-276). Text is written entirely on cloudbands with gold fill between the lines. Textblock is border ruled in gold and black. Page openings are ruled with a thin, gold frame. Sū̄rah titles appear in white ink on a gold background cartouche enclosed in a rectangle with light blue fill around the ends. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Gold circular and floral motif marginal medallions appear throughout to mark rukūʻ and text divisions. Readings marked in red.

Shelfmark: MS Or 190.

Origin: Item is undated, though probably copied in the 17th or 18th century, perhaps in India.

Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I12.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002. Digital version conforms to: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Item has no covers, though the quires are still bound together with orange thread.

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